Bangladeshi Islamist activists vandalize shops during clashes with police in Bogra some 120kms north of Dhaka on March 3, 2013. Bangladesh deployed troops in the north of the country after 16 more people were killed in a fresh wave of violence over the conviction of Islamist leaders for war crimes in the Muslim-majority nation.
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Bangladeshi police personnel stand guard during a nationwide strike called by Jamaat-e-Islami and protesting the war crimes verdicts, in Dhaka on March 3, 2013.
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Bangladeshi police officials fire rubber bullets and teargas shells towards demonstrators during a clash with Jamaat-e-Islami activists in the north western city of Rajshahi, about 260 kms from the capital Dhaka, on March 1, 2013.
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A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) police officer shoots rubber bullets to demonstrators during a clash with Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Rajshahi on February 28, 2013. At least 34 people were killed in Bangladesh in a wave of violence today as Islamists reacted furiously to a ruling that one of their leaders must hang for war crimes during the 1971 independence conflict.
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The wreckage of a three wheeler is seen in front of a Bangladeshi police station in Gaibandha north from Dhaka on March 1, 2013, where Jamaat-e-Islami activists killed three police personal on Thursday.
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Fresh clashes in Bangladesh have killed at least 23 people as the country observes a nationwide strike over a war crimes court's ruling to sentence an Islamist party leader to death.

Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a cleric and leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, was found guilty on Thursday of crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.